I took the photograph on the left of the patio at Smokin Fins, a sushi restaurant located at Foothills, an inside-outside mix of shops and restaurants in Fort Collins, Colorado. It just amazes me that people are willing to sit outside in 38 degree temperatures and eat raw fish without a gun pointed at their head. This was not a dish that was featured or even available back on the South Side of Chicago, where I grew up. If you even suggested eating raw fish back then, you would be locked up for psychiatric evaluation. I myself would still recommend that drastic step today, but then again, nobody has asked for my opinion about it.
The only comparable situation I've seen involving eating raw fish in 38 degree temperatures was when the seal in the photograph on the right was given raw fish as a reward for saluting it's trainer during a performance at the Denver Zoo. Of course, this is the only food available to seals in the wild, and so they have no choice but to eat fish if they want to survive. This is obviously not the case with the diners at Smokin Fins. Plus, seals can survive in extremely cold temperatures, thanks to a thick layer of blubber. And as for those people sitting outside in the cold? Well, thick layers of blubber are not uncommon for Americans, too, these days. Right?
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